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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 4, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news partly Cloudy Section one 2 sections vol. 92, no. 29mt. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening february 4, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain the 1970 crusade against moral monsters when Barry Coldwater running for president in 1964, started talking bout crime in the streets he thought he had a Good Issue. But he was just four years ahead of his time. Today As the candidates for office in 1970 begin their campaigns there is a race to pre empt the tag of being the most unequivocal enemy in any Given District City or state of the moral monsters who seem to be swarming Over the land. And As the campaigns warm up the unthinkable will be thought the inadmissible will be admitted and the unspeakable will be spoken. Mafia characters will be dragged out into the cold Light of Day the police will Start going after vandals timid school superintendents will do More than admit to themselves that they have a terrifying drug problem on their hands and parents who have been trying alone to Cope with troubles with their rebellious offspring will find themselves attending mass meetings to consider their predicament. Too in new York state there has been a virtual conspiracy of silence about drug addiction in the schools. If democratic mayoral candidate Mario Procaccino or Republican John Marchi had really gone to town on this subject last fall they might have succeeded in bouncing mayor John Lindsay out of new Yorkus City Hall. Suddenly coming from nowhere the name of state Assembly speaker Perry b. Duryea. A Republican from the Montauk end of Long Island is being mentioned wherever the politicos Are talking about possible candidates for governor if by any Chance Nelson Rockefeller should move on to Washington As say Secretary of state. One of the reasons for Duryea a sudden emergence As a big figure in his party is his willingness to face up to the drug Issue. He is convinced he says that in his Home Community some eighty per cent of the High school students have experimented with marijuana. Duryea wants special legislation to cover the treatment of school age drug addicts. Too in Connecticut it was being generally said a year ago that u. S. Senator Tom Todd who had been censured by his colleagues for alleged misuse of Campaign funds would have Little Chance for renomination let alone reelection in 1970. But Dodd who was recently cleared by the internal Revenue service of charges of income tax violation has seized the Issue of violence in the schools As a prime Issue and As chairman of a Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency he is in a better position than any of his rivals to go gunning for moral monsters in newspaper headlines and on to. Dodd has been telling the citizens of the Connecticut state capital of Hartford that their local school Bill for vandalism and burglaries in the academic year of 1963-69 came to $170,000. To soothe any ruffled regional sensibilities Dodd also Points out that Chicago a problems Are worse than Hartford a. Between 1964 and 1968 the reported assaults on Chicago teachers jumped from around a Hundred to More than a thousand. Dodds presumed opponents for the senatorial nomination a state Senate majority Leader de Marcus and the reverend Joseph Duffy head of americans for democratic action a would assuredly concede nothing to Dodd in this matter of deploring juvenile violence and narcotics addiction. But the Point is that Dodd can beat them to the punch we Hen it comes to giving chapter and verse taken from the hearings of his own Washington subcommittee. The very fact that the children of big time politicos have been victimized by drug pushers is bound to make the crusade against moral monsters a popular Issue for anyone who can prove that he has been a Pioneer in combating the spread of juvenile crime. When a newly elected new Jersey governor a major candidate for the democratic gubernatorial nomination in California a new York state democratic aspirant to succeed to governor Rockefeller a Job in Albany and a Hartford Connecticut City manager All have to confront the fact that their own offspring have been arrested for drug Possession it pretty Well defines what is bound to be Issue number one for the coming election year. The Fagins who organize the drug pushing will be everybody s major enemy. Distributed by King features Syndicate winners in Corn and soybean yields Roger Mcallister Rural it. Union has been named Henry county Stop Winner in the 1969 Corn yield contest sponsored by the it. Pleasant chamber of Commerce. Mcallister a winning Field averaged 166.46 bushels per acre adjusted according to the Iowa master Corn growers contest rules and regulations. The top Winner in the 1969 soybean yield contest went to Alfred Cassivell preparing rebuttal Washington up a supreme court nominee g. Harrold Carswell worked on a rebuttal defense today against charges he was racially biased against civil rights lawyers and litigants As a Federal judge in Florida. The Senate judiciary committee gave Carswell until Midnight thursday to file replies. Committee members meanwhile tried to reach a Compromise that could Lead to an Early vote to Send the nomination to the Senate floor. Once it reaches there confirmation appears Likely. Too the committee is in its second week of hearings on the nomination. President Nixon appointed Carswell to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Abe Fortas last year. Nixon a first nominee u. S. Circuit court judge Clement f. Haynsworth jr., was rejected by the Senate. Northern lawyers representing Freedom riders Black voter registration workers and school desegregation petitioners testified that Carswell was hostile to them and that he threw procedural roadblocks in their Way. Too others charged Carswell a actions belied his recent repudiation of a 1948 political speech that he believed in and would never renounce White supremacy. They cited his courtroom conduct and his part in converting a municipal Golf course in Tallahassee fla., to a private segregated club when integration orders threatened its All White status. Carswell denied any racial motivation in joining the club. He testified he was unaware racial considerations were a Factor in its organization. Denning of Rural it. Pleasant with an adjusted yield of 57.4 bushels per acre. The announcement was made by Logan heu jail chairman of the chamber Commerce agricultural committee. A banquet Date will be announced in the near future honouring these and other top Corn and soybean producers within the area. The top Corn producers and their yields in bushels per acre were reported As follows Roger Mcallister 165.46 Keith Mcallister 156.03 Stan Unkrich 155.59 George Unkrich 153.67 Wes Rinner 153.45 Leonard Schweitzer 150.95 Lloyd Myers 149.17 Merle Unkrich 147.72 Royce Miller 142.80 Clarence Holtkamp 137.21 Adrian Overberg 136.97 Ronald Denning 136.78 Kenneth Tolander 129.85 Frank Van soc 116.35 the top soybean producers and their yields were Alfred Denning 57.46 Ronald Denning 55.52 Keith Mcallister 52.32 Thomas Jefferson 43.46 Senate recede agrees to on age Bill Des Moines up a tile Loed constitutional amendment a Senate today agreed to recede which would allow 19-year-Olds from an amendment that would voting privileges and assume full allow 19-year-Olds to serve in the adult Legal rights including the state House of . Right to Purchase and consume biggest item in the division of the budget Dollar is not defense for the first time since goodness knows when. Human resources edges it by a few cents. Budget is $200.8 billion. Direct dealing in six communities Senate delays debate on land Purchase Donnellson a direct distance dealing started monday in six Lee county communities Iowa Telephone co. Announced. They Are Argyle Donnellson Merce also sponsored a master it Farmington Houghton Primrose Corn growers contest of which 18 Ancl West Point area Farmers entered and compleat the project is part of Iowa a Tele de the contest. Steve settles was phones Long Range construction Resolution halting the Purchase of the top Winner with an adjusted and expansion program company the Winfield chamber of com Des Moines Ufi a the Iowa Senate today rejected an attempt to begin debate immediately on a Mccormack defends his leadership Washington up a speaker John w. Mccormack defended his leadership of the House today and said a dissident democrats proposed vote of no Confidence was a Case of ingratitude. Beer and liquor. Too earlier today the House on a vote of 25-85 refused to go along with the Senate approved Amend ment and immediately sent the measure Back to the Senate. Senate Republican Leader Robert Rigter of new Hampton attempted to ram through the to i tion that the Senate reverse itself on the controversial amendment. However democratic floor Leader Andrew Frommelt of Dubuque Oto i ejected to the Quick move and said i that several senators wished to Dis a cuss the amendment before a vote was called. Too the motion to recede was adopted after a Brief flurry of democratic objections. Then the Senate reconsidered the full measure and approved it on a 44-14 vote. The constitutional amendment has been passed by both the sen the Senate voted 38-22 to recede from its amendment following vigorous objections from Senate democrats. The Senate tacked on the amendment last week to a propos debate costs of allowing counties to join Des Moines up a after Day Long debate and at times Sharp exchanges Between Large county and Small county legislators the Iowa Senate tuesday deferred action on a Bill to allow counties to join an association of Iowa counties. The Senate went to work on the Bill tuesday morning recessed for ate and the House but it must be lunch and returned in the afternoon reconsidered and passed by both before deferring action on the Bill. 1 tidies during the 64th general the measure was deferred after Assembly before it can be present sen. Andrew Frommelt. D do i t0 Public for a vote. Com yield of 160.4 bushels per acre. Others at the top of the production list were j. T. Settles 158.5 Ralph Mabeus 154.1 Herman Wolf 151.5 All of the Winfield area and Dale madams 156.3 of Rural it. Union. Men who assisted in the Field measurements for the it. Pleas-1 ant chamber included George Stanley Logan Heusel Richard Thuma Don meth Marlyn Madole and Henry holler. Robert Marshall also assisted with applications and calculations. Officials said. New farm Bill sent to Congress land in Western Iowa for a fourth state College. Sen. Arthur Neu r Carroll asked the Senate to suspend its rules in order to take up the Resolution which was approved by the House monday and endorsed tuesday by the Senate higher education committee. Neut a motion tvs Defeated on a 39 21 vote. In order for the Senate to suspend its rules 41 votes Are needed for passage. The the Bill was therefore placed on sent the regular Senate Calendar but is the 78 year. Old Massachusetts Bult it Uez a a local note 10 determine the costs to the counties lawmaker under increasing Challenge by the party a younger members said no one had supported progressive legislation More vigorously than the current House leadership team. Senate approves wiretapping Bill Washington up Nixon administration has Congress a new farm Bill proposal expected to come up for debate yet which would continue farm surplus week. Des Moines up a a Bill to controls and Price supports in a modified form. Administration farm officials said the Bill was worked out with Council is scheduled to give final the consensus of House farm Lead Neu argued that the Senate should begin debate at once on the Resolution because the executive ers and represents a basis for of legalize the use of a wiretap 01 legislation but it is not con still seeking cause of municipal building blast Sater Heights Ohio up a demolition experts investigating an explosion that destroyed the municipal building in this fashionable Cleveland suburb say the blast did not appear to be a bombing. Investigators for the Gas company say they Are almost certain the explosion was not caused by Gas. A a let a not kid ourselves. At this Point we done to know what happened a said police chief Carl Long Street. The building which housed the police the jail courts and other municipal offices was destroyed monday evening. Fifteen persons bugging device in order to fight crime was approved by the Iowa House tuesday 75-40. The Bill which now goes to the Senate would allow a county attorney or the states attorney general to get a District court or Side red a final proposal. Among other things the Bill includes a $110,000 per crop ceiling on Federal support payments to big Farmers. Administration farm experts said Overall support payments would probably remain at Der to tap a Telephone or to Plant 35 billion level of recent bugging devices in rooms. However a District court judge May Grant the wiretap order Only within his judicial District. This restriction was proposed by rep. Norman Jesse a Des Moines who years but the need for such payments might decline in coming years of Market prices improve. One controversial part of the measure was expected to be a proposal for a floor under per Pound approval to the land Purchase next monday. Neu said that he understands the Council would delay giving its approval if the Senate adopts the Resolution before next monday. The Iowa legislature in 1967 and 1969 appropriated funds for the Iowa Board of regents to Purchase land in Western Iowa for the school. The regents agreed to Purchase nearly 790 acres of land at Atlantic and the executive Council was directed to approve the regents land Purchase. Said he feared a judge shopping by and per Bushel support rates for a Law enforcement officer for a maj0r crops. The Daft Bill provides Patsy judge who would sign any support ceilings but does not con kind of an order. A j Tine the guaranteed floors pro the order for a wiretap must Vida a by present Law. Come before the Telephone line has _ been tapped or the room bugged. A Justice of the peace or a municipal court could not Grant the order. Reaffirms decision Row Jer Jepsen to speak at county dinner or. Frank v. Coles has announced that lieutenant governor Roger w. Jepsen will be the guest speaker for the Henry county Lincoln heritage dinner to be held february 28th at the first United methodist Church in it. Pleasant. Lieutenant governor Jepsen of Davenport has made a rapid Progress in politics. Or. Jep in was elected lieutenant governor of Iowa in 1968. His ability was recognized Early in the area of government on a1 with by troops attack . Jungle outpost Saigon up a Only hours before the Start of their four Day tet cease fire North vietnamese troops launched an unusual Daylight attack today against an american Jungle outpost near the funds on a per capita basis and if cambodian Border spokesmen said. The total fund exceeded $75,000, the members of the . 1st air excess would be proportioned Back cavalry division repelled the at of the Bill. Under the Bill county officers would be allowed to attend schools of instruction with All expenses paid out. Of county funds. Frommelt objected that the Bill does not stipulate How Many officers j could attend such schools and i such expenses could be High. The measure would authorize county boards of supervisors to a1 Low their county to join the pro posed association. The association would be financed out of count to the counties. Frommelt charged that the Bill would not give equal representation in the association to the Large counties. He argued that counties with Small populations would have an equal vote in the association with counties with populations As much Asio times larger. He said a the Large counties Are paying most of the Bill but they re not going to have the votes to go car hits sign a car driven by John Michael Watts it. Pleasant route 4, struck a Street sign at the intersection of South main and South streets at to . Wednesday bending the sign Over. Remodelling at Iris restaurant Dave Heaton a Iris restaurant is presently undergoing extensive remodelling and Interior decorating. When completed there will be expanded dining facilities and a new lounge area. The present Entrance foyer and Watts was going North on main i lounge will be converted to dining and was turning West onto South areas and the Southwest part of Street when the Accident occurred i the restaurant will be converted were injured in the explosion Only the car Wasny to damaged. The a into the new lounge area with a one seriously. I ident was reported to police. Separate Entrance from the West drive. There will also be inside i 1 a a 1 i doorways Between lounge and Din Schwengel acts in drug abuse i ing facilities. The drug abuse problem has in ask for their suggestions on How to creased to the Point where it has i Deal with the drug abuse problem. Become a National problem if not a National scandal congressman Fred Schwengel said in his a a Washington report. Between 1960 and 1967, juvenile arrests involving use of drugs Rose by 800%. The number of College students who have used drugs at one time or another is estimated to to in the millions. Narcotic addicts Are not Only dangerous to themselves but represent a threat to their Community. Drug addicts Are largely responsible for the increase in Street crimes. Numerous proposals have been made to Deal with the drug abuse problem. Some have been described As needlessly harsh others As far too permissive. For this reason i have gone to those persons in my District who have the most experience with the problem to secure advice. Last fall i wrote to Law enforcement officials in Southeast Iowa to i contacted the staff of the College of Medicine at the University of Iowa. Since that time i have also contacted some of our High schools in the first District to obtain their views and suggestions on the drug problem. Many constructive and useful ideas were received from these officials. My staff is now in the process of reviewing the suggestions. They will be used together with information obtained from the Bureau of narcotics and dangerous drugs and the National Institute for mental health to prepare legislation to Deal with the drug abuse problem. Every room will be extensively re decorated with soft tones of paint and wallpaper accented with new fixtures and a limited amount of panelling. There will be no interruption of dining or lounge facilities during the remodelling work. The executive Council delivered the following statement on monday regarding action on non renewed contracts of prof. Bruce Birch and prof. Frank Wright. On 31 january the executive Council passed the following statement a the executive Council finds that the decision to not retain Bruce Birch and Frank Wright was reached in accordance with existing a recognizing the Many positive and enriching contributions of these two men to the College nevertheless the executive Council have found no Way in which to amicably retain them on the a other actions of the executive Council taken at the same session will be presented to the faculty for action through regular Agenda Howard o. Nash Secretary state level. The National lieutenant governors conference i n 1969 named him As vice chairman of the midwestern states and a member of the executive committee of that group. He is a member of the lutheran Church Kaaba shrine Isaac Walton league Scott county retarded children a association farm Bureau dads association University of Iowa National association of life underwriters general agents and managers association. The Jensens have six children. There will be a social hour preceding the dinner saturday Fob. 28 at 6 00 . The dinner is scheduled for 7 00 . Tickets for the dinner will be the admission for both events. Goo arrangements for the dinner is under the chairmanship of Ralph Carnahan and Donald e. Young. Hosts for lieutenant governor Roger w. Jepsen and his wife Dee. Will be or. And mrs. Ken Rogers and supervisor and mrs. Clark Burns. Congressman Fred Schwengel will give a report from Washington . To the group. Hosts for the congressman will be Jon Harris Dee Mehaffy supervisor and mrs. Wilbur Sater and Helen m. Virden. The Lincoln heritage dinner has become an annual event in Henry county and a Large attendance is anticipated for this years event. Sen. Marvin Smith r Paullina the chief sponsor of the measure told Frommelt there was nothing in the Bill to indicate How the counties would be represented in the association voting. Smith said the association could determine at a later Date How the voting would be apportioned to the various counties. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon be wary of the talker who adds a in other words a too often its a sign of too Many other words since the Senate has now passed a Bill dealing with this problem i anticipate Early action by the House orders . To set example Washington up a president Nixon today ordered All Federal installations to set a National example by moving to eliminate air and water pollution within three years. The president issued an executive station in the outskirts of Mexico i order to activate a $359 million pro quake strikes Mexico City Mexico City up a a Sharp earthquake struck Mexico City tuesday night frightening some residents and tourists but causing no damage or injury. The Tacu Baya seismographic City said the Shock registered 63 on the open end Richter scale. It struck at 11 09 . 9 09 . On the problem. My legislation est it. Will be introduced in time to be Tacu Baya said its epicentre was considered along with the Senate about 280 Miles Southeast of mex standards the passed Bill. J Ico off the coast of Oaxaca. J set its own. Gram under which Federal facilities including military bases must be in compliance with state ant pollution standards by the end of 1972. In states not having such administration will of. Pleasant Community school Calendar feb 5 Keokuk 8th and 9th there at 5 30 feb. 6 basketball varsity Oskaloosa there. Wrestling Iowa City West Here. Feb. 7 state speech Large groups. Feb. To Fairfield 8th a and b Here at 4 1 5. Feb. Left. Madison 9th there at 5 15. Feb. I 3 basketball varsity Centerville Here High school dance feb. I 4 National Merit qualifying tests h. S. Library 8 30 a in. Iowa City 9th there at to a in. Tackers twice killing 43 of them the . Command said. American i casualties were listed As at least i four dead and three wounded. The assault came As communist troops shelled 31 targets overnight in South Vietnam including the big Allied air base at Bienho in suburban Saigon. Terrorist incidents also were on the increase. Field reports said the action near the Cambodia Border occurred in the Flatland around Landing zone Tina about four Miles from the Frontier and 70 Miles Northwest of Saigon. A a a Chi save Nixon y i wont reverse his position Washington up a Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott said today that president Nixon would not reverse the withdrawal of . Troops from Vietnam As a response to increased enemy military pressures. He told the Senate foreign relations committee that the troop strength reduction process is any retaliatory action to Cope with stepped up communist activity would be through other military Means Scott indicated. He did not elaborate on that. Nixon has warned the Hanoi regime on several occasions that he will take appropriate responses if communist offensives jeopardize the safety of . Troops during the withdrawal program. Nominated for Board of Public instruction Des Moines up a t. J. Heronimus an attorney from Grundy Center has been appointed to a six year term on the Iowa a Board of Public instruction gov. Robert d. Ray announced today. Heronimus appointment for a feb. 16 school Board meet term ending Jan. I 1976, is subject ing. Waco 9th, there at 6 . To confirmation by the Iowa sen feb i 8 High school band ate. It gov. Roger Jepsen concert at 8 . Feb. 19 Early dismissal in service Day. Feb. 20 basketball varsity it. Madison Here. Feb. 24 girls District basketball tournament Here. Feb. 27 girls District basketball tournament Here. District speech. Basketball varsity Washington there. Feb. 28 girls District basketball tournament Here. District speech. Ray announced earlier this week that he had withdrawn the original appointment of Lester Menke of Calumet to the Board after two senators voiced opposition to the appointment. Menke had requested that his name be withdrawn. Goal line to meet the goal line club will meet at the rec tonight at 7 30

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